Mr Stefano Febbi > Bird & Bird > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Stefano Febbi
Work Department
Finance and Financial Services
Position
Partner
Career
Stefano is a partner in Bird & Bird Finance & Financial Regulation Group based in Milan and co-head of Bird & Bird International Financial Services Group.
Since joining Bird & Bird in 2003, when Bird & Bird Italian offices opened, his focus has been on banking, financial services including payments services, and insurance regulation, advising prestigious financial institutions on their core business and regulatory compliance.
His work includes drafting agreements and related documents for banking, financial and insurance products and services; advising clients on regulatory issues (including payments regulation), including disputes with regulatory authorities, and drafting essential operational agreements for financial institutions and insurance companies, such as distribution agreements, outsourcing agreements and tied agent agreements.
Working with his team in Milan, they also support banks, insurance companies, payments companies and other financial intermediaries in defining and drafting internal procedures and manuals, and preparing offer documentation, such as prospectuses, for issuing financial securities and soliciting public savings.
He has advised several major clients on measures to comply with the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), the Undertaking for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (UCITS Directive), the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2), as well as the Consumer Credit and Transparency Directives. He also specialises in anti-money laundering legislation.
Languages
Italian, English, French
Education
Education
Università degli Studi di Milano, Degree in Law
Admissions
Italy Bar, 2002
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Compliance
(Leading partners)Advising on the entire spectrum of compliance work, Bird & Bird‘s Italy practice houses experts in regulatory compliance, corporate 231 matters, data protection, cybersecurity and product compliance. The team’s expertise also covers advertising pre-clearance, consumer protection and antitrust. Key figures include financial regulation specialist Raimondo Maggiore; Stefano Febbi, a regulatory compliance adviser; and Simone Caddedu, who focuses on EU and Italian administrative regulation. In addition, the department features Rossella Sansone, who is experienced in asset management and financial services, and Federico Marini Balestra, a former legal officer at the Italian Communications Authority.
Italy > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
Bird & Bird‘s wide-ranging expertise covers investment services, compliance with capital requirements, marketing investment funds and issuing financial products. Other key areas range from market abuse, insurance distribution and fintech, to sustainable finance regulation, AML, derivatives, consumer credit and payment services. Financial regulation specialist Raimondo Maggiore heads the banking and financial markets regulation department, which features Stefano Febbi, an expert in banking, financial services and insurance regulation; and Rossella Sansone, who routinely advises on asset management and financial services. Other active practitioners are Annapaola Schino, Diego Bobbo and Diego Cefaro.
Lawyer Rankings
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- Capital markets: Debt
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Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Compliance
- Investment funds
- Administrative and public law
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Industry focus: Energy
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Industry focus: TMT
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- EU and competition law
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- Private equity